Image Styles - Beyond the Basics
Video Description
Images can make or break your Drupal site.
Get them right — and your site looks polished, professional, and beautiful.
Get them wrong — and suddenly everything feels… off.
In this beginner-friendly session, we’ll go beyond the basics of Drupal’s image styles and show you how to finally take control of the way images show up across your site — without needing custom code or complicated workarounds.
We’ll cover:
Planning your image styles — so you don’t end up with a confusing mess later
How Drupal’s Focal Point module makes sure the most important part of every image stays visible (even in weird crops)
Cool extra tools like Image Effects Kit (IEK) (and others) for adding creative image effects
How to use image styles right inside CKEditor — so content editors can resize and crop images without breaking a sweat
Real-world tips for setting up flexible, reusable image styles that work across your whole site
This session is perfect for site builders, content editors, and anyone who’s ever said:
“Why does that image look so bad on this page?”
Come learn how to make your images smart, consistent, and way easier to manage — all using Drupal’s built-in tools (plus a couple of powerful extras).
No design degree required. No developer magic needed. Just smart Drupal tricks you’ll wish you knew sooner.
Rod Martin of DrupalHelps
https://www.drupalasheville.com/2025/session/image-styles-beyond-basics
Get them right — and your site looks polished, professional, and beautiful.
Get them wrong — and suddenly everything feels… off.
In this beginner-friendly session, we’ll go beyond the basics of Drupal’s image styles and show you how to finally take control of the way images show up across your site — without needing custom code or complicated workarounds.
We’ll cover:
Planning your image styles — so you don’t end up with a confusing mess later
How Drupal’s Focal Point module makes sure the most important part of every image stays visible (even in weird crops)
Cool extra tools like Image Effects Kit (IEK) (and others) for adding creative image effects
How to use image styles right inside CKEditor — so content editors can resize and crop images without breaking a sweat
Real-world tips for setting up flexible, reusable image styles that work across your whole site
This session is perfect for site builders, content editors, and anyone who’s ever said:
“Why does that image look so bad on this page?”
Come learn how to make your images smart, consistent, and way easier to manage — all using Drupal’s built-in tools (plus a couple of powerful extras).
No design degree required. No developer magic needed. Just smart Drupal tricks you’ll wish you knew sooner.
Rod Martin of DrupalHelps
https://www.drupalasheville.com/2025/session/image-styles-beyond-basics